Palm Royale – Season Two [2025] – Kristen Wiig, Ricky Martin on Apple TV

Season Two of Palm Royale is like watching a series of sketch comedy scenes from SNL that aren’t funny, but the actors keep on acting hard to try to get the audience to laugh.

How can you top the cast of the first season? You add Patti LuPone. However, with a bigger cast, the writers took on themselves to make the season messier, harder to follow, and a totally campy show.

Don’t get me wrong, I love over the top stories and costumes. But I also need a semi-logical storyline to tie everything together. Season two of Apple TV’s Palm Royale has too many storylines stuffed in each episode to make it interesting enough to care, or even coherent.

A big example is LuPone’s character. She shows up out of nowhere, takes a whole episode, and some, initially affects nothing, and then disappears till the finale. It honestly felt like a last-minute decision to stuff her into the season in order to replace Carol Burnett as the central figure in any potential future seasons.

To be honest, I don’t think the show should have a third season. If you come for the pretty costumes and production design, you’ll be a happy camper, but don’t expect the new season to get any less overstuffed, silly, messy, incoherent, or shallow.

While Allison Janney is essentially the central character of the season, and she did amazing, the stories of every single character on this show made absolutely no sense, even for a fantasy world.

Should You Watch It?

I keep trying to have some patience with this show, but It’s still too much in love with the visuals, needle drops and word salads it pushes out to viewers, while its characters remain ciphers we find a hard time caring about.

Where Can I Watch It?

You can stream Palm Royale exclusively on Apple TV.